From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f49c8f164340c377 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Current status of Ada? Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:46:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1188301598.978936.312630@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> References: <1187726191.464593.16480@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> <1187850312.375316.57440@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1188287915.362195.177670@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.138.37.241 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1188301599 6319 127.0.0.1 (28 Aug 2007 11:46:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:46:39 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1188287915.362195.177670@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070724 Red Hat/1.5.0.12-0.3.slc3 Firefox/1.5.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.138.37.241; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1570 Date: 2007-08-28T04:46:38-07:00 List-Id: On 28 Sie, 09:58, roderick.chap...@googlemail.com wrote: > Perhaps you > don't think it counts becuase it's based in the UK? This is an interesting observation. I might not be the most informed in the subject, but I have an impression that Ada is currently better supported in Europe than in US. Some French universities use Ada quite heavily. I also have some signals from other European countries where students choose Ada as a vehicle for their automatics projects. >>From the "spectacular projects department", high-speed trains come to mind. Of course I mean - European high-speed trains. The last conference on Ada (and thereabouts) was held in Geneva. Some of the frequent posters on this group work in Europe as well and it looks like they are using Ada at work. Projects like AWS or PolyORB seem to have European origins. In short - the fact that US military industry turns away from Ada is at most the US problem, not the Ada problem in general. Nothing to fuss about. Just my 0.05 Euro. ;-) BTW: Ada Lovelace was European as well... -- Maciej Sobczak http://www.msobczak.com/